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December 04, 2012
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Africa: Lions Declining at Alarming Rates, Study Finds
About 75 percent of Africa's savannahs and more than two-thirds of the lion population once estimated to live there have disappeared in the last 50 years, according to a study... Read more »
August 07, 2012
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South Africa: The Other Zulus - The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa by Michael R. Mahoney [book listing]
In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighboring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, enabling the British to claim... Read more »
March 21, 2012
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Ghana: Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra - Five Musical Years in Ghana by Steven Feld [book listing]
In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Read more »
December 23, 2011
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Africa: The Nation Writ Small by Susan Z. Andrade [book listing]
In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa’s first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the... Read more »
November 15, 2011
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South Africa: Musical Echoes - South African Women Thinking in Jazz
Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Read more »
October 10, 2011
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Sierra Leone: The War Machines - Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia by Danny Hoffman [book listing]
In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other... Read more »
August 08, 2011
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South Africa: Violence in a Time of Liberation by Donald L. Donham [book listing]
How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violence that shows why this question... Read more »
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